Intimate Partner Violence & Minority Stress

£120.00 – £160.00Ex VAT

Intimate partner violence is an emotive issue that you may encounter as an added factor to other areas of crisis that GSRD clients bring to therapy. With professional thinking on this topic mostly coming from a heteronormative framework that imposes defined roles and gender stereotypes on victims and perpetrators, you may find yourself challenged as a Counsellor, Therapist or Mental Health Professional by the complexities and differences that can present with the GSRD client group.

Pink Therapy’s Intimate Partner Violence & Minority Stress online-learning CPD module outlines a framework for understanding GSRD clients in the context of their relationships, the specific minority stresses that may have an impact on them and the physiological processes that influence responses and behaviour as a result of trauma. With safety as a starting point for your therapeutic approach, you’ll be encouraged to consider optimistic ways of working underpinned by recognition of responsibility and deep commitment to change. You’ll also be supported to consider the impact of your own experiences and responses to client material to acknowledge your self-care needs as a therapist engaged in reflective clinical practice.

Description

This 15 hour CPD module offers you the opportunity to:

develop your understanding of how the dynamics of GSRD relationships may differ from heteronormative models that address intimate partner violence and consider the implications of this for your clinical practice

explore the impact of the minority stresses on GSRD couples that can perpetuate and entrench intimate partner violence in their relationships in profound ways

understand the neurochemical processes that are relevant to GSRD clients engaged in relationships affected by intimate partner violence and the connection with the habitual responses and repeated patterns that can overshadow clients’ lives and styles of relating

learn how GSRD clients’ past experiences of being safe and unsafe in their particular personal contexts are vital to informing your therapeutic approach

understand what creates change within GSRD relationships that have been affected by intimate partner violence and explore interventions that will support effective, compassionate and optimistic practice

consider your own responses when working therapeutically with intimate partner violence and what this means for your self-care needs as a reflective practitioner

Candidates who submit and pass a short set of tutor-marked questions will achieve a Certificate of Study worth 15 hours of CPD credit from Pink Therapy.

About the Author:

Pamela Gawler-Wright MSc is Director of Training for BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and has been a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist since 1994. Her training work includes Pink Therapy and several international organisations across different modalities of psychotherapy. Areas of practice include recovery from trauma, addiction and dependency, co-dependence and working with identity stress.

Service to UKCP Committees includes the Ethics Committee, the Diversity and Equality Committee and Education, Training and Practice Committee. As a Contemporary Psychotherapist, a range of approaches are integrated according to the client’s needs, sometimes working in brief therapy and sometimes longer term. She works with individuals and couples and also as a Consultant to organisations. Psychotherapy sessions last between 60 and 90 minutes so that there is time to explore and integrate into life what has been discovered in the work together.

Pamela is an Advanced Accredited GSRD Therapist with Pink Therapy and has been out as bisexual since 1980. She is married to her female bisexual partner of over 20 years. Working with transgender people is important to her, supporting their outcomes individually and collectively. She was highly active in achieving the cross-organisation, trans-inclusive Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy 2017.

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It’s easy to enrol!

You’ll immediately be able to download your Welcome Pack and a Non-Disclosure Agreement, which needs to be signed and returned to Pink Therapy.

We’ll be in touch with your login details for our online learning portal where you’ll find all your course materials and assignments.

If you’re uncertain about your learning needs and would like to request a Guidance Interview via video call with Dominic Davies drop us a line and we’ll be in touch to schedule your appointment. There is a £40 charge for this service.